Hearsay

“I think you want to speak before I speak.” U.S. District Judge Rya W. Zobel, to former state Sen. Joseph Timilty when he asked if he could speak after she sentenced him on a fraud-conspiracy conviction

HEARSAY HAS IT that one of Boston’s largest law firms has become noticeably trimmer in recent months. Since last March, at least 22 attorneys have departed from Burns & Levinson, which was listed as the state’s 10th biggest law firm ...

The usually outspoken Nancy Gertner appears to be lying uncharacteristically low now that she seems headed for a seat on the U.S. District Court. Gertner initially submitted amicus briefs for the National Organization for Women’s Legal Defense & Education Fund ...

With actors falling all over themselves to play lawyers in the movies, why shouldn’t real-life lawyers get their shot on the big screen? Audiences at the Loews Assembly Square theater in Somerville no longer ponder that question. Now flashing across ...

“It is a miracle that anyone, let alone a busy district judge, can cope with the profusion of arguments that the FDIC and Resolution Trust Corporation unleash in cases of this kind. … Like a giant squid releasing ink, agency ...

HEARSAY HAS IT that Boston attorney Alice E. Richmond has been replaced as the 1st circuit’s representative on the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary by none other than her rival for another ABA post, Michael S. ...

The Massachusetts Bar Association has taken itself a new executive director — one year after long-term exec Kay Paine departed and six months after Paine’s replacement, Eleanor Druckman, took her leave as well. Outgoing MBA President Elaine M. Epstein announced ...

Boston attorney Kathleen E. Coffey, nominated by Gov. William F. Weld for a judgeship in Chelsea District Court, has been confirmed by the Governor’s Council despite charges made against her by fellow big-city lawyer J. Joseph Lydon. Lydon and his ...

“With Jim Marcellino as president of the BBA and Mike Mone as president of the MBA, it’s going to be Godzilla versus the Ape Man on 42d Street.” Superior Court Judge Suzanne V. DelVecchio, commenting on her fellow Boston College ...

No one can accuse lawyers of not giving of themselves. Just ask the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance, which last month reported that a trial lawyers’ political action committee for the past two years has ranked second in ...